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what is the meaning and use case of each URL encoding Reserved Characters
What does each of this characters mean in context of an URI?
Note that a URI consists of several different "contexts" or parts. eg. the scheme, host, URL-path, query string and fragment ...
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Does using onclick to redirect parameters impact SEO?
Based on Links Crawable Guidelines, the link will be crawled as https://www.example.com/, because Google can not follow link from onclick attributes.
Google search central says:
Google can follow ...
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Strange URL parameter in Google search result, looks like an advertisement
Your site has likely been hacked and a malicious script inserted to add spam-advertising. The script may show one result to the Google bot and other results to humans. You should contact your hosting ...
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Can keywords in the URL path be separated by commas for Google?
Browser will encode input, according to the character-set used in your page.
I personally avoid , in url structure, because of encoding. It's %2C.
So your url would be like /url=keyword1%2Ckeyword2....
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How do real estate websites like Zillow host pages for every address in their database?
As with any other page detection in Google it is done through linking. Zillow doesn't host every single address as a page rather it is being done using a single page template and a database of ...
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“Invented” URL parameters
If there's no legitimate content at those URLs, just return a 404 status. That's what it's for.
You may also want to include a rel=canonical link in your script's HTML output, to make sure that any ...
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URL Parameters in the new Google Search Console?
This feature is not yet available in the new Search Console. However, you can continue to use it in the old Search Console. Setting up URL parameters still affects your site even it can't be done ...
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How to redirect a URL and remove parameters using .htaccess?
To redirect the exact URL as stated you will need to use mod_rewrite (ie. RewriteRule and RewriteCond directives) since only mod_rewrite is able to match the query string part of the URL (ie. ...
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What to do with unwanted URL parameters?
Use a canonical tag
The best option is usually to use a canonical tag to tell search engines that the preferred URL doesn't have those URL parameters.
This handles the duplicate content issues ...
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Do URLs that only consist of an id, for example, a timestamp, have a chance to succeed in SEO?
I always lean towards descriptive urls.
They are easier for the users to understand.
They are easier to maintain.
And they have a tiny bit of impact on ranking.
Google : URL structure best practices ...
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How to remove the related videos at end of YouTube embedded video?
As of September 2018 Youtube has made it impossible to remove related videos. You will always get related videos from now on.
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Can keywords in the URL path be separated by commas for Google?
Commas are not typically used in URLs and are not recommended. You should stick to using either underscores or hyphens/dashes. That being said, Google recommends hyphens/dashes, so I would go with ...
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How to remove the old site from Google Search and reset Google Search Console after developing a new website
Primarily I see 2 core issues you are facing,
1. I receive the links for the old site that aren't valid.
There are couple of ways you can go past this. Assuming, you have limited number of pages, ...
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unexpected url parameters added by 3rd party browsers
I know this is old, but after going through some server logs, I came across the same parameters and I was curious where they were from.
I have found
from=groupmessage,
from=timeline,
from=...
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Duplicate content due to URL parameters ('canonical' link type can’t be used)
Would adding the parameter in (google) Search Console fix those issues?
Even if it did, it wouldn't help 100% because there are other search engines I'm sure your client would want his website ...
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Duplicate content due to URL parameters ('canonical' link type can’t be used)
I would canoncilise the original page without the parameters to itself, which explains to google this is the original and you can ignore the rest.
<link rel="canonical" href="http://domain.org/...
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What is the `#` symbol in a link with Google Analytics campaign tracking parameters?
If you have checked the option Set the campaign parameters in the fragment portion of the URL (not recommended) immediately under the field that gives you the completed URL, then the URL builder will ...
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Would google handle querystring parameters in a image filename as seperate images?
Putting parameters on a URL makes new URLs. Googlebot will see those two different URLs separately as separate images.
Should you minimize the variants? Not necessarily.
Googlebot does duplicate ...
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Google Search Console URL Parameter Tool reports no URLs monitored
This appears to be a bug/glitch on Google's end. Many sites have had this same issue (https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/16282442). Google has also indicated that they may be deprecating the ...
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Does rearranging query parameters result in duplicate content?
With regards to duplicate content, as long as the correct canonical tag is set to match the original page, it should be fine.
In saying that, it's definitely not optimal to have duplicate pages with ...
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Disallowing path with parameter
All right, I found an answer in docs for how to use robots.txt:
URL matching based on path values
Robots.txt Specifications
This should be fine:
Disallow: /Home/SomeBlockedPath
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Using robots.txt to block sessionID URLs
Based on official guidelines, don't use the robots.txt file for canonicalization purposes.
You can blocks sessionid URLs using Parameter Handling
If you block using robots.txt, you may lose the search ...
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Using robots.txt to block sessionID URLs
Disallow: /*;jsessionid
A more precise syntax for what you want. A trailing * does nothing.
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Strange URL parameter in Google search result, looks like an advertisement
You are a victim of a hack (XSS, code injection) due to a bug, security flaw in your CMS (WordPress, Drupal, etc.)
One example of this type of attack is the "pharma hack" on WordPress, where ads ...
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Duplicate content due to URL parameters ('canonical' link type can’t be used)
If the canonical tag in the header isn't an option, you have a few alternatives to avoid the impact of duplicate content:
Specify only the main content in a sitemap without all the varying parameters,...
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Should my canonical URL contain the language parameter?
What you're looking for is the hreflang tag. These indicate to a crawler that an alternative language version exists. The crawler will then index the page with the language that matches it's own ...
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which component handle php's GET parameters in a URL
GET/POST are HTTP headers that either request/send data. These are handled by the server initially and are part of the standard HTTP request methods.
To do this in Apache, at the top of your domain ...
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How to remove the related videos at end of YouTube embedded video?
YouTube changed the rel=0 parameter as of September 2018 so that it no longer fully disables related videos.
However, you can work around this using the YouTube Player API to show custom HTML ...
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What is adding p, subid, and uid variables to the query string of a site url?
These are all used in tracking URLs.
A SubID is a string of alphanumeric characters generated at the end of a redirect URL, which records a user-defined variable. uid is Unique Identifier. Check if ...
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Joomla Website Creating Automatic Unwanted Subdomains
The issue that you are having is in relation to cPanel and your web host. Typically a default install of a cPanel hosting account will setup various services that can be accessed by your domain. Often ...
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